Definitions for pourpoint

pourpoint pour·point

Spelling: [poo r-point, -pwant]
IPA: /ˈpʊərˌpɔɪnt, -ˌpwænt/

Pourpoint is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 241 anagrams from letters in pourpoint (inoopprtu).

Definitions for pourpoint

noun

  1. a stuffed and quilted doublet worn by men from the 14th to 17th centuries.

Origin of pourpoint

1350-1400; French, noun use of past participle of pourpoindre to quilt, perforate, equivalent to pour-, for par- (Latin per) through + poindre (Latin pungere to prick, pierce; see Examples for pourpoint

He has a large black cap on his head, and his pourpoint, mantle, and wide and embroidered sleeves are yellow.

Dick-o'-the-Gyves attempted to trip him up, John Catchpole seized him by the collar of his pourpoint.

"And I, 'Swim my friend,'" cried the advocate, laughing like the gap of a pourpoint.

We find the names of the gambeson, hacqueton, and pourpoint, and sometimes the jacke.

The pourpoint was worn over the hauberk, but sometimes it was worn alone, the hauberk being omitted for the sake of lightness.

A few days after Pascal's death, a servant discovered this profession sewed into a fold of his master's waistcoat, pourpoint.

I had but time to seize Michelot by the collar of his pourpoint and draw him towards me.

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